J. R. R. Tolkien
Between Middle Earth and the West
130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien?
Bored of the Rings
Is it time for the Tolkien industry to give it a rest?
Woke of the Rings
The Tolkien society is scanning the author’s work for signs of cishetero amatonormativity
Dress rehearsal
A 2015 comedy starring Volodymyr Zelensky is now showing on Channel 4
Can Ncuti Gatwa save a tired franchise?
The new Dr Who is timely, not tokenistic
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
No-demand TV
Have We Got Politicians for You
Boris will be Boris … again
How to end up a happy ex-prime minister
The American nightmare
America’s toxic racial politics cannot be allowed to take root in Britain
Institutional cover
Why are Health Talk and Oxford University promoting GenderGP?
Compulsory voting — the solution to our gerontocratic crisis?
Young people have been written out of British politics: it’s time to let them back in
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century